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One of the largest Black-owned bookstores in the entire Southwest, The Dock Bookshop has been celebrating Black History Month every business day for 16 years. Since opening in an unassuming space in a Meadowbrook strip mall on the East Side in 2008, sisters Donna and Donya Craddock have created a hub for Black

The owners of the Fort Worth bookshop created a space where all are welcome.

The history of Valentine’s Day is a little murky. There are three early Christians named Valentine or Valentius credited with love-y miracles –– the kind for which a regular person can be sainted by the Catholic church. But my money’s on the fine early Christian tradition of co-opting pagan festivals and relating

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Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Alicia Keyss appearance at last weeks ABA Snow Days virtual conference provided a seamless segue into a roundtable discussion of booksellers brainstorming what they can do to support schools and libraries against book bannings.

Singer-songwriter Alicia Keys set the tone for the final afternoon of the ABAs new virtual conference for indie booksellers when she urged them to tap into their superpower: the ability to fight back against book bannings.

A national coalition of African American booksellers and independent publishers are teaming with the Caribbean-American Political Action Committee on February 1 to launch a global effort to gather 100,000 signatures on a petition calling for the exoneration of Marcus Garvey, the celebrated 1920s Black nationalist political activist and entrepreneur.